• @Steeve@lemmy.ca
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          11 year ago

          What makes me think that two countries that have never identified as capitalist and have never been identified as capitalist anywhere except for this crazy ass community where you just go ahead and label anything you don’t like simply as “capitalism”? Oh I don’t know, just a hunch I guess!

          • @Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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            61 year ago

            Well if you think ‘because they say so’ is reason enough there’s not really any further to go here I don’t think. I was hoping you’d have a more interesting answer about how the economy is structured or how resources are distributed. It looks more like an authoritarian flavour of capitalism to me but I’m no politics expert so I only have a layman’s view, more than happy to be corrected.

            • @Steeve@lemmy.ca
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              1 year ago

              Dude, the reason you think they’re capitalist is because someone on Lemmy said so, I’m not going to put effort into correcting something that didn’t have evidence behind it to begin with. I’m not going to sit here and try to prove a negative to correct your layman’s view, that’s not how conversation works.

              • @mr_pichon@lemmy.world
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                41 year ago

                They have private companies and a market economy, how is that a communist economy exactly ?

                If your only argument for saying they’re communist is because they said so, then you must also believe that north korea is a democracy right ?

                • @HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world
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                  11 year ago

                  You’re correct. China, I believe I heard, also has more billionaires per capita than the US. Don’t quote me on that, I’m not entirely sure.

          • @masquenox@lemmy.ml
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            11 year ago

            What makes me think that two countries that have never identified as capitalist

            The DPRK “identifies” as “democratic” - so by your logic you should just swallow that hook, line and sinker, too, eh?

            have never been identified as capitalist anywhere except

            Oh, boy… are you in for a surprise - Lenin himself dubbed the fledgling USSR as “state capitalist”.

            Nothing new about it, Clyde.

            Every one of your arguments have been blown out of the water with next-to zero effort… and yet you still pretend you’re in the game.

          • arcturus
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            11 year ago

            Russia is very capitalist; like how exactly are they communist at all??